Arkansas

It was the late '50s. Arkansas had rarely fielded good teams. The Razorbacks represented a state that, in a lot of tellings, desperately needed a pick-me-up. It arrived in the form of a coach named Frank Broyles, who built the Hogs into a war machine over a long, durable run near the top of the sport. Then things changed again. Let's talk about Arkansas' rise in the college football hierarchy, how it came apart, and how a coach became part of a state's personality. Plus, let's play out some what-ifs to their logical conclusions.